A unified account of the Old English metrical line

A unified account of the Old English metrical line

This study describes the verse design of Old English poetry in terms of modern phonological theory, developing an analysis which allows all OE verse lines to be described in terms of single metrical design. Old English poetry is typified by a single type of line of variable length, characterised by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Andrew
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen 2017
Subjects:
metrical phonology
Old English
Anglo-Saxon
syntax-phonology interface
accentual-syllabic
hypermetric
beowulf
optimality metrics
quantitative verse
Specific Languages
Språkstudier
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Jämförande språkvetenskap och lingvistik
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148370
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http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7797-050-7

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http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148370
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7797-049-1
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7797-050-7

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